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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

Evolve your leadership : Great leaders consistently manage themselves out of the job. One-on-Ones and Feedback Structure your 1:1s : Use a four-part format covering performance, relationships, leadership, and innovation. Create psychological safety : Encourage calculated risks and constructive dissent.

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Advancing social and environmental change in Argentina

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

All three organizations aim to empower communities in Argentina by addressing social problems through reducing construction debris, creating organic gardens, and promoting digital literacy respectively. La Escombrera is an organization that aims to reduce construction waste in Argentina. What projects are you working on now?

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Lead, Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way

Both Sides of the Table

Leadership – It’s hard to be a real leader. Whether they succeed or not does not defeat their leadership and willingness to try. If you’re constructive. For the good of your people. Otherwise, it’s ego centric. Why does this credo resonate with me? And trust me, the world is FILLED with naysayers.

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The Importance of The Narrative

Both Sides of the Table

By sophomore year I got the inspiration to hold leadership positions in the fraternity. Having held all of the major operational functions of the fraternity I was ready for “real leadership.&#. I had the experience and leadership skills. I pledged what was then the best fraternity on our campus, Phi Delta Theta.

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Formwork Labs aims to build ‘the YC of construction tech’

TechCrunch

Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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For tech firms, the risk of not preparing for leadership changes is huge

TechCrunch

You’d think tech companies should be the paradigm of how to prep for leadership transitions, since they operate in such a constant state of flux. It’s best to record this history well before the intense swirl of a leadership transition begins. They’re far from it.

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Alchemist Accelerator announces new leadership alongside its latest class of companies

TechCrunch

The accelerator itself, meanwhile, has some news: new leadership. weRice : An augmented-reality based tool that helps manufacturing/construction workers identify issues while automatically saving any learnings for the next person dealing with it.